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List:       qubes-devel
Subject:    Re: [qubes-devel] Running (or not) Xen during installation
From:       Trammell Hudson <hudson () trmm ! net>
Date:       2016-11-03 20:26:28
Message-ID: 20161103202628.GU12784 () chishio ! swcp ! com
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On Thu, Nov 03, 2016 at 09:13:26PM +0100, Marek Marczykowski-Górecki wrote:
> [...]
> Benefits of dropping Xen:
> - no longer limited to 32MB of initrd for UEFI boot[1]
> - easier starting installation in non standard environment (network
> boot, non standard installation media)
> - ability to use almost any tool to write USB installation image (most
> of them, like unetbootin, generously setup a bootloader to launch
> _linux_ image found in the ISO image)

One other option is to use a minimal Linux image that can then kexec
Xen/dom0/initrd without any of the UEFI limitations.  This also addresses
the various interesting alternate installation techniques -- if Linux
has a driver for the NIC/filesystem/etc it is possible to use it to
fetch, verify and invoke the next stages.

-- 
Trammell

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